Daddy I Love You card

Hello! Claudia (@mrsclocards) here today with another card for my Color me Happy series!

Saturday will be Father’s Day here in Italy and I usually make a card for my husband on behalf of my daughter: she asked for a blue/orange color combo so I pick up the Quack Me Up stamp set for creating a rainy scene with Copic markers. Wanna know more? Here we go!

On a piece of Heffy Doodle Alcohol Marker Friendly cardstock I stamped the images from the Quack Me Up stamp set: I started with the umbrella and the little duck, I masked them and I stamped the puddle and then the daddy duck. Since I was going to create a background with the Copics, I left the masks on the images and I also created one for the big duck (I didn’t cover the puddle as it wasn’t in the sky part of the card).

I was now ready to color and I used a range of blue Copic markers to create the rainy sky: this was my first attempt and I really need to improve my technique, however it’s all about making strokes with different markers until you cover all the area.

COPIC LIST
SKY and PUDDLE: B0000, B00, B02, B05, B18, BG13, BG18, Y000
UMBRELLA: YR00, YR04, YR07 – RV000, RV21, R23, RV25
DUCKS: E50, YR00, YR04, YR07
GROUND: W0, W1, W3

I suggest you to leave the center of the card lighter as it will help your images to stand out better; you can also use a light yellow marker to highlight the area. When I was happy with the result, I removed the masks and I colored the rest of the images. Now the most feared part: drawing the rain with a white gel pen… I swear, this is where the magic really happens! I also added several splatters here and there for a more interesting look.

I made the faux Polaroid by using the third largest rectangle from the Imperial Stitched Rectangles dies on a piece of white cardstock and cutting a square with a 7,5 cm square die. I use the same die over the colored image and I inserted the colored panel into the frame. The rectangle was too long and I trimmed it on the bottom: this part ended up missing the stitches but I liked the result anyway.

For the sentiment, I made the “daddy” by mixing letters from the Happy Birthday Shadow Heffy Cuts (used three times on orange cardstock) and glued them together on the card; I then stamped the I Love You sentiment from the Absotoothly Awesome stamp set with Versafine black ink. I also stamped the hearts from the Yappy Happy Mail stamp set and colored them with orange and blue Copic markers, then I fussy cut them and added them to the card using little foam squares.
I made a card base and I ink blended the front with Carved Pumpkin Distress Oxide. For giving the whole card more depth, I used an old black mini ink pad on the edges of both the Polaroid and the card base before gluing all together.

I hope you like my card and see you soon!
Happy crafting.

Clo